chine china, about four hours from bejing. specifically they moved there for the bad weather. it's hot and humid and often blanketed by thick smog. exactly what competitors are expecting in beijing. the u.s. men's basketball team was there before the beijing game games, almost the whole britting team was there, brazil, argentina was there, all these countries sent their olympic athletes to macau in advance to get used to how disgusting it would feel to play in beijing. china is of course the largest country on earth by pop jlgz. that's our population and theirs. china has 1.34 billion people. you could subtract our entire population from their population and they would still be over a billion people. china is just massive. and inside the enormous nation of china, there were until really recently two european colonies.

hong kong, obviously, the highest profile one. it was a british colony in china until 1997. in 1997, it was handed over from british control to chinese control with great fanfare. when it got handed over, there still was one other european colony left in china. one owned by portugal of all places. two years after the british handed hong kong over to the chinese, portugal handed over control of his county, which is macau, while its weather and its air quality and to be frank, its scenery ranothing to write home about, it has one untouchable greatest in the world mega asset. gambling. gambling is legal in macau, and gambling is illegal in mainland china. and there are so many people in china that if you can funnel all of them who want to gamble into one nearby place, well, then that place is, well, it's the

gambling capital of the world. even though it seems like macau is out in the middle of nowhere, it is within a 90-minute journey for 200 million chinese people who can gamble there and nowhere else. and if you think that people will travel even more than 90 minutes to get to the only place they can gamble, then the numbers are even more staggering. >> within a five-hour flight of las vegas, there are approximately half a billion people. take that same flight circle, move it to macau and there are 3.1 billion people. that's the enormity of the opportunity. >> you can tell it from his use of the word opportunity there that that is obviously one of the guys making money off of the gambling capital of the world. but he has an american accentering right? how is that possible? well, in 1999, when china got control of macau after had it been run by portugal, when china took it over, they did not try to ban gambling, but instead of

all of the gambling concerns being run by this random guy who had a monopoly on the casinos and businesses there, the chinese decided they would occupien up their cgambling to two developers from vegas. within five years of that decision, their first casino had its grand open wrrg it's this one right here called the sands in macau. here's what it looked like when it opened. >> when sands of las vegas opened its doors last year in macau, they were deluged with customers. >> somebody was describing that tape to me before i saw it, and they're like, it's a really big crowd. i was like, let me see to be sure -- oh, my gosh. the casino isn't even that spectacular of a casino, but it did the trick. within two years that same vegas developer, just two years later, naturally, opened up another casino in macau.

here's what it looked like in 2005, a couple cranes in the middle of an empty lot. here's what it looks like now. aha, the venetian macau. when it opened, it was the second largest building in the entire world. by floor space. that opened in august 2007. august 2007. one year later, world financial collapse. that vegas developer had taken on a huge amount of debt to be able to open up those two casinos one right after the other, including the second largest building in the entire world. a huge amount of debt. and when the economy and the financial system collapsed in 2008, a lot of their revenue that came substantially from las vegas, dried up. they had taken on all these lung term debt, they're facing with not being able to pay the bills. they were in a rather desperate state as a company. so desperate that the owner of the company wrote a pair of

personal checks to his company for a billion dollars. billion with a b because he had been a casino mogul long enough that he had a billion dollars laying around and he could do that. but he had to loan his own company a billion dollars out of his personal funds and even that wasn't enough. the company decided it was maybe going to have to break apart some of its properties in macau, sell some of them off to make cash. they started looking into it, starting looking into doing an ipo, taking the company public in china to raise billions of dollars in cash on the hong kong stock exchange, but if they wanted to do these things which they desperately needed to do to raise cash, if they wanted to to the things with the assets in china/portugal/the place where the basketball players go to get used to the smog, if they wanted to to this stuff in macau, they were going to need help in the policy department. they were going to need help in terms of dealing with local government in macau and china

and permissions and regulations and, and, and. part of the las vegas company's solution was to hire this guy. he's a legislator in macau, public official. he's on a kind of government executive board that runs macau's affairs and he's on another government body that advises mainland chiny on how to deal with macau. he's a public official three times over. he's got three very important government positions. and this american company needs a whole bunch of very important government decisions to go its way in order to save its bacon. so they hire this guy, they hire this local public official to do some legal work. to do some very, very, very expensive legal work. they hire this guy's law firm, and they pay the law firm $700,000 over four months. for lawyering, for doing legal stuff. for context, this same las vegas company had a big, very expensive, super fancy new york

city law firm on retainer as well. they paid this guy in macau, three times what they were paying their whole new york law firm. if you're an american company, there's something called the foreign corrupt practices act. thank you, jimmy carter. it says in short, you can't bribe people in foreign countries to get your way. you cannot bribe local officials in foreign countries if you are an american business. if you're an american company, you can't do it. it doesn't mean you can't work with local elected officials in some kosher way, but it's got to be kosher, and i'm not a lawyer, but i'm going to go out on a limb and say some local official you want to help you out with policy matters can't just bill your -- bill your firm $200,000 for a line item that is just labeled expenses in beijing. but that's the kind of relationship this las vegas company apparently had with this local official who proved very helpful to them in getting done what they needed done in some

very desperate times for that company. the only problem was that it looked super illegal. at least that was the assessment of this las vegas company's lawyers when they looked into it. quote, i understand that what they are seeking is approximately $700,000. if correct, that would require a lot of explaining. given what our other firms are charging and given the foreign corrupt practices act. the same company lawyer said in another e-mail, quote, i continue to believe this proposal to be inappropriate, unrealistic, extraordinarily expensive, and way above market. that was the top lawyer, the general counsel of this company. this las vegas company. and at that point, he's writing to the ceo of the company, the ceo of the company agreed with his reasoning seemingly and said that he would get rid of the local lawyer guy in macau to whom they were paying these huge, seemingly dodgy, possible illegal fees. after repeatedly expressing his

opposition of this guy and saying they would have problems, that general counsel, the top lawyer resigned. the ceo of the company got fired. the head lawyer of the firm working in macau also raised objections to this arrangement and also got himself fires. but it worked. the company dot got to do their public offering on the hong kong stock market. vegas is back, their properties in singapore happen to be doing well, and macau, their see it from space temple of one armed banditry in the gambling capital of the world, not only survived but is separating lux starved saps from their money faster than the speed of math. it was a very big bet, but it looks like it paid off. it worked. maybe. unless they get nailed for it. pro publica and pbs front line are out with a blockbuster

report about how the securities and exchange commission and the department of justice are now investigating this american company for what this raft of internal e-mails seems to see them fighting about internally and then doing it anyway. foreign krurpt policies act be damned. the guy who runs and owns the company in this mess is the guy who is essentially bank rolling the entire u.s. election. the single largest american donor of all time. a man who said he would give $100 million this year to defeat president obama, to elect mitt romney, who now says that actually the amount he could give this year should be seen as limitless. that is sheldon adelson, the guy at the heart of the mess in macau, his company, and the federal investigation into it. that's the guy named in the e-mails as directing the payments despite what his own executives were told about the payments possibly breaking the law. if you were that guy and that

was your multibillion dollar casino in the gambling capital of the world, 90 minutes away from 200 million chinese people who can't gamble anywhere else, how much would it be worth to you to get a brand new justice department installed in washington? how much would you spend on that? joining us now is steve ing ingleberg. thank you for being here tonight. >> good evening. >> your investigation very thoroughly details the transactions that ultimately benefitted sheldon adelson. in me recounting them and describing them, did i get anything wrong? >> it's pretty close. pretty close. >> what did i mess up? >> i think just to be clear, you know, what actually happened here is there were several aspects of things that connect other things. in the ipo, the key issue was they wanted to have retained a ferry concession. it delivers the gamblers right to the doorstep of the casino.

somebody else wanted it and it went to court in macau and they were losing time and time again. they lost at the first level, the second level, the third level. they were clearly going to lose again when the gentleman who was in charge of macau, the chief executive, a man who worked closely with alves, issued a degree saying no, macau, that's not going to happen. las vegas sand is going to keep their concession. that was very, very crucial because the people who were going to invest in the company wanted to make sure the gamblers were brought to the doorstep. i think ultimately, the justice department investigators are going to have to figure out what all that adds up to. >> when potential violations are investigated, do the u.s. investigators look at what is happening in that country to say it looks like that decision is a product of a bribe, or it looks like that shouldn't be trusted. maybe it should be explained by misbehavior from an american company? >> sure. they're going to look at first

of all, was a public official paid money. he is a public official. did he potentially effect the decision? what you can't do is pay money to gain something in business. you can't, you know, get a contract or get something special out of a government. and so the question they're going to have to look at closely is what happened? and you know, through the work of two very fine reporters i work with, lowell buergmann and matt isaacs, they obtained a number of e-mails which are on our website, and i think people should look and see what the e-mails say. they give us a piece of the picture. and you can clearly see they were leaning on this gentleman, alves, to try to get them help, and he got them help. >> you don't in the piece disclose from whom you got these internal e-mails, but you do say they were received from people who are authorized to get them in the first place. obviously, in the course of telling the story, you talk about a number of high level executives alt the company who resigned or were fired under circumstances that seemed connected to some of the deals

that are now being investigated. is it possible that they are just trying to make sheldon adelson look bad because they're disgruntled or they're going to be suing him for wrongful termination or some other beef they have with him? >> of course, i couldn't discuss our sources. i would have to shoot you and me. but you know, i think the e-mails speak for themselves. they're pretty clear. i mean, they tell a story. and we have on the record the former president of the company, a man who also had a very little dispute with mr. adelson who said we knew you couldn't really do business in macau without getting in with pretty dodgy characters. it's a place where chinese organized crime has existed for decades and decades. you can't get into macau and have this kind of success without edging close to people who are pretty unsavory. on top of that, it's a very insuler political system. as we document in the piece, and this again comes from a memo written by a member of the board

of directors of this company. he said a rather sort of unusual personal style. he went to china and so the memo says, slammed his fist on the table, demanded things, and the chinese were very unhappy with this. he didn't have a lot of friends. when they were in deep trouble in 20008, they didn't have a front. who more perfect than mr mr. alveswho speaks portuguese, a man the thie chinese trusted o do the hand over. he filled a crucial role for the company at an absolutely critical moment. you can't underestimate how seriously in trouble these guys were. the stock, and this is kind of ironic, the stock of sands was so far down, you know, it has come up something like 3,000% since they saved the day. no man has become more wealthy under the obama administration than sheldon adelson which he says is a socialist administration, but he's doing okay. >> he has presumably a huge

amount to lose if this, these investigations of him went as strongly against him as they might. >> something interesting. these investigations come up from time to time, and in general, corporations insulate themselves. they have people who protect the ceo from being anywhere near this. sheldon adelson, this is a fortune 500 company, but it's his company. he owns a majority of the stock, he runs it. what the e-mails show is he has his hands on many, many aspectses of it. he's right in the middle of all this. that's unusual. you don't see that very often. he obviously faces potentially, the investigatorerize going to have to look at his actions in the context of everything we're talking about. >> steve, this is a fascinating piece. i'm sure it took a lot -- it took a lot of investment to get the resources necessary to do this. thanks for helping us understand it. all right, a number tonight, a data point about american politics that will amaze you. it's about you and what you're not doing in droves. >> plus, we have a best new

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back when everybody was paying attention, which people were voting in caucuses, which tuesday nights were punctuated by this. back when people were voting and what we think of as the primary season, a candidate named ron paul never won any of those contests. he didn't win any of them, but his campaign had another strategy, specifically designed for the time that came later. the time when people would not be paying as much attention and there would be no fancy election theme song. the ron paul strategy was even though he might not be able to win on what everyone thought of as election night in all of these states, his supporters would plan to later on pack the boring day long county and state level party conventions in order to get themselves elected as delegates to the big national convention in tampa. that was how he won iowa this year. he didn't win on caucus night,

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ron paul supporters. right down to their last chance. the last state to award those golden tickets to tampa, the last chance to get their fifth state, to fulfill the fever dream of a chance to take over at the national convention. here we have a little video, i think, of some of the supporters getting psyched up the night before the nebraska convention, getting psyched up by the voice of congressman paul via conference call in a way that appears to be emanating from speakers in an open car trunk. >> if you look at what we believe in and what the republicans profess to believe in, we're more republican than the rest of them. >> and they all cheer at the car trunk. i like ron paul supporters and the way they're so excited. the ron paul campaign was really excited going into the weekend in nebraska. and frankly, that also got the mitt romney campaign excited. got them excited enough to send their own big guns to the

nebraska state convention this weekend. to nebraska this weekend, the romney campaign dispatched the campaign's chief counsel, top lawyer ben ginsburg, representing george w. bush in the florida recount in 2000. it's not the first time he's been dispatched to a convention by the romney folks, but we have noticed when his name comes up in the news reports, it's invariably in connection with efforts to wrangle ron paul supporters. wrangle ron paul supporters who are trying to take over the state and delegates for themselves. for whatever reason, this weekend, the romney campaign sent its top lawyer to the nebraska republican convention. when the two sides squared off in nebraska this weekend, what happened? the ron paul folks, very excited for their last chance to be the camel's libertarian nose wiggling its way the to the main stream republican tent, and the romney campaign dispatching their top staff to hold the tent

firmly in place, to keep the camel out. what happened this weekend in nebraska? the camel got smoked, and that's a quote from the omaha world herald who described the ron paul revolution as failing to materialize this weekend in nebraska. quote, in the end, the paul revolution in nebraska got smoked. ron paul won two of the state republican party's 35 national convention delegates. mr. romney, the party's presumptive nominee won the rest. two delegates and that was ron paul's last chance to win a plurality in a fifth state. this last chance to be put up for nominee for president in tampa. but the dream will never die? i'm sure many other ron paul related dreams will never die. but this one is dead. let's call it dead.

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knowing who they are. however, those are the rules by which this year's road race will be run and the short term good news for liberals in today's w news is that liberal fat cats are starting to give money where it counts. lefty cats who are fat are finally giving money to super pacs this year. over the past three months, april, may, and june, over that time period, the democratic leaning american bridge 21st century pac, brought in a whopping 4.1 million. these numbers reported by politico and mother jones. more? house majority pac spends its money getting democrats into the house of representatives, and house majority pac is dwarfed by plain old majority pac, which tries to put democrats into the senate majority in the senate, majority pac brought in $5.4 million over the last three months. but democratic minded voters, if you want to see your fat cats

pulling the wagon, probably not an image that is fit for tv, but bear with me, a new metaphor, if you want to cisee it rolling in like big waves on the beach, check out priorities usa. they hauled in $11.7 million, all in over the last three months. they raised just over half of that in june alone. add together all four of those democratic aligned super pacs over the last three months and you get $25.5 million for democratic causes like electing a democratic president and a democratic congress. $25.5 million. want to see who else has that money? just the super pac for mitt romney. the main super pac for mitt romney raised $20 million, not in three months but in one month. in june alone. 30 days, one super pac, $20 million. we will not know for a mfew mor days where that money came from, but the early consensus is probably half of it came from the casino mega mogul sheldon

adelson who we talked about at the top of the show. he's on his way to spending $100 million or more, up to what he calls no limit and more, trying to elect mitt romney. and we learned over the weekend that he will also be spending yet more unlimited millions on electing republicans for congress. if you're doing the math at home, that is one voter topping his personal $25 billion fortune in order to elect the president and congress of his choosing. the president and congress he believes will most benefit him and the $24 billion and so fortune he'll have left after buying that government. and why wouldn't he? let's say your family has been very lucky. let's say household income of your family is well above the national median. let's say it's $100,000 a year. when sheldon adelson donates $10 million, he's so rich that that is the financial equivalent of somebody who makes $100,000

donating $40. $40 to you is $10 million to sheldon adelson. and this gives rise to two really important and interesting questions. number one, what does sheldon adelson want? why is he giving all that money? and two, why on earth would you ever give money at all into that system? if there are people throwing $10 million checks around frequently like this guy, why would you drop your measly $40 or $200 or whatever you can afford into that sea of somebody else's cash? why would you spit into that wind? harvard law professor lawrence lesing has been putting an exclamation point on this for a long time. you want toknow the portion of people who give more than $200 to a congressional campaign. 0.26%. 99.74% of americans don't give that much. why would you? and not even half of that teeny tiny group that are giving give the maximum in a congressionp

campaign. the teeniest tiniest 1% give more than $10,000 to any one candidate in an election cycle. this time,.000063%, that unpronouncement prakz of the american public accounts for 80% of all the money given to the super pacs. if they're going to be decided by chunks of money that arrive in multimillion dollar increments, why would you expect than anyone who can't give at that level would give at all? it would be hard to devise a system to better alienate people from our government than to have one where money usually determines who wins and what the choices are when you win, and your human scale money can't make a difference, so don't bother, and if you're curious to know where the money came from, sorry, that's secret. if you wanted to create something more alienating, what would you add to that? it's nearly perfect. since the supreme court ruling in 2010, since the ruling in the citizens united case, most of

the new unlimited, unprecedented money spent in our political system has been spent for the benefit of republican candidates. by an almost 2 to 1. and a 2 to 1 last time, and again by a big margin this year. look. the system now favors conservatives, decidingly and decisively. today in the senate, republicans filibustered an attempt by democrats to pass new rules for the unlimited giving. the disclose act would have required corporations and labor unions to disclose publicly any political spending of more than $10,000 right away. republicans filibustered it and a block. it was a party line vote, and even though republicans used to support disclosure rules like this, republicans now say they like the new way that we do things. since they cannot pass their bill, democrats are making a big deal out of trying tonight. even after today's filibuster, the democrats are reportedly planning to hold a midnight vigil with hours of further debate followed by another vote around 1:00 a.m. they're not expected to win that

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if this flood of outside money continues, the day after the election, 17 angry old white

men will wake up and realize they just bought the country. that's a sad commentary. about 60% or more of these outside dollars are coming from these 17 people. >> our nation is being sold to a few billionaires. senate majority leader harry reid arguing for new rules for the unlimiting campaign giving now swamping the 2012 election. republicans filibustered those new rules today. they voted to block the bill and let the unlimited millions keep pouring in, no strings attached with no requirement to say where they're coming from. coincidently, they have doubled up democrats when it comes to benefitting from the unlimited donations. after having the republicans successfully filibuster the new rules tonight, tonight, democrats in the senate plan to debate the bill all over again with another vote scheduled for 1:00 a.m.

joining us now for the interview, fresh from the capitol, is jon tester of montana. thank you for being with us. >> great to be with you, rachel. >> since i'm going to go out on a limb and say you democrats can't get this bill passed given the way the vote went this afternoon, what is the goal here? are you hoping people are going to hear more about the issue or that republicans will feel embarrassed? what are you hoping for? >> the goal is to get some transparency into the giving that is going on, all of the secret money going into elections. i don't think it's healthy for our democracy and quite honestly, i think we're looking for some folks to change their mind. you know, in montana, everybody says they're for transparency, yet when it comes to voting for it, sometimes they don't. and hopefully common sense will prevail here and the next time we have a vote, whether it's early this morning or tomorrow, we'll get enough votes to be able to move on to the bill and get it passed. it's the right thing to do for

the country, the right thing to do for montana, and i think it's the right thing to do for our democracy in general. >> in earlier debates about money and politics, the republican line for a while was that they weren't against limiting donations. they wanted people to make unlimited donations. and any concerns about the outsized impact anybody might have, outside influence, could be rem aelds by disclosure. they were in favor or no limits and disclosure. now we have republicans against disclosure, too. something like a dozen republican senators who voted for a proposed lock like this in the past are now against it. do you have any theory to explain the evolution? >> your previous chart probably showed it. some of the folks on the other side of the aisle see a political advantage at this point in time with having no disclosure. i can tell you that i don't think democrats or republicans win with this supreme court decision on citizens united over

the long haul. i think the democracy loses. and hopefully people back in washington, d.c. will understand that. i mean, this really amounts to rachel is who are you accountable? are you accountable to the people who elect you, who vote for you, or are you accountable to the corporations that donate boat loadsf money into the third party folks, all anonymously, for the pomost part, all have a agenda as you pointed out earlier. >> you were up for re-election this year in a race that has featured lots of outside money. do you feel like when you're meeting people in montana, when you're campaigning, running for re-election, you're talking about some of the stuff thrown for you in the ads. does it matter to them who the author of that ad is, who has nar name on the end of it or who is paying for it? >> i think it does. montana has a little different history than most folks back in

1899, william clark literally tried to buy an election with some $431,000, $11 million in today's money. i think montanans look at it differently, and it cuts part y lines, whether you're democrat, republican, or independent, all of montana or republican, they don't like people buying their government. and so i do think it makes a difference. and i think it's going to have -- there's going to be a law of diminishing returns. but there's no doubt about this, rachel. we are on a different landscape now than we've ever been before, as far as the amount of money coming into these campaigns and the amount of secret money that's coming into these campaigns. >> you are a centrist senator on a lot of issues. i know you've had good relations with gun owners and sportsman groups, and you've had a solid rating from the nra in the past. the nra has decided to score this vote as if it is a gun rights vote. i'm wondering what your reaction to that is, as somebody who's been pretty down the middle on that issue?

>> well, you know, i support the second amendment, always have, always will. this is about transparency, and i also support transparency. you know, montana's a very transparent state when it comes to their government. we allow press in just about every meeting that's out there. if you have more than a couple of people that are meeting. and i think that's a good thing. and i think we ought to be doing that more in washington, d.c., and the whole transparency argument about money coming into these campaigns and where the money comes from is absolutely critical to me. so while i support the second amendment and i support it firmly and will continue to, i also support transparency. and i think transparency is critically important. >> senator jon tester of montana, thank you for joining us tonight. it's going to be a late night for a lot of democrats tonight. i appreciate it, sir. >> thank you, rachel. >> thank you. all right, we've got the best new thing in the world coming up right at the end of the show. the most cuddly yay for cheating story you've heard about all day, unless you had a different day than i think you had. man: there's a cattle guard, take a right.

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best new thing in the world today. all right, the best new thing in the world todd today is about openly and honestly reminding yourself to do something, doing it, and being rewarded for it. the key hear is openly and honestly. this is technically about cheating, but it's about cheating you don't have feel bad about. a couple years ago, this was sarah palin, speaking at what was then a very important and prestigious event that everyone in the beltway was paying attention to. it was a tea party convention, of some stripe. governor palin at that convention delivered a speech that was well received, people seemed to like it, she seemed pleased with her performance, but it is not what got remembered from that event. what got remembered from that event is what happened during the q&a that followed her speech. watch. >> we've got to rein in spending, you know, obviously,

and not raise these extremely high budgets wiand then say, ok, we're going to freeze a couple programs here. that doesn't do us any good, really. we've got to start reining in the spending. >> did you see that? sarah palin very clearly looked at her hand there. she looked at her hand while answering a question about spending. at least, i think that's what she was trying to answer. but she got caught. i mean, she really, really, really got caught. look at her left hand. without us enhancing this picture in any way, you can clearly see there's lots of stuff scribbled on her left hand. here is a close-up of her hand. see, you can see she's got written there the words "energy," drill, baby, drill? no, just "energy," i think budget cuts, maybe, although it looks like "budget" was crossed out, then the word, "tax," and then "lift america's spirits." one way mrs. palin chose to lift america's spirit that day was

for mocking mr. obama for using a teleprompter at speaking event, meanwhile, she had a very elementary cheat sheet in the palm of her hand. the cheat sheet itself is of no moral insignificance there, right? that was the way she decided to help herself get through the day. being a hypocrite about it being a bad thing to use notes when you talk about politics while you were using notes to talk about politics, yeah, there is a moral issue there. but mostly, it's the amazing photo. we see that indelible picture of that presumably indelible ink on her life. parody come to life. and now we'll fast forward a few years, this year's all-star game at coffman stadium, home of the kansas city royals. the national anthem was performed by a country music singer named luke bryan. he has a very nice voice and was doing a very beautiful job until this happened. mr. bryan was caught looking at the inside of his left hand. the very next day, he said on twitter that he really wanted to

explain his performance. he had a few words, words, as in words to the national anthem, written on his hand, so he would not mess up. he said he just wanted to do his best. he promises it was from his heart. there's nothing terrible, horrible, or inherently evil about using your skin as an index card when you're afraid you might forget things, when you really don't want to be forgetting things. there's nothing wrong with that, per se. that is not an indictable offense. i write stuff on myself all the time. but here's how you do it awesomely. the summer olympics are coming up at the end of the month, they will be in london. and there's a man named jack green who's a sprinter on the british track and field team. he's going to be running in the 400 meter hurdles and the 4 x 400 meter relay. this weekend he ran in the very last big deal race before the olympic games. jack green really wanted to win. he wanted to win really bad. he wanted to win so badly that he was willing to put on display

for all the world to see what he thought of that day as the keys to his racing success. did you see the photo of this today? jack green, 20 years old, runs for track and field for britain, and, look! see that? on his arm? it says -- his name is green, and written in green on his arm, it says, chin down, flat back. this is not photoshopped. this really was, look, what was written on the inside of his arm, in what is that, like green crayon, maybe? a tiny paintbrush? i don't know, chin down, flat back. it's like we've got subtitles for what was going before this athlete's mind just before racing. then the race began. at first he was behind, because he was in one of the outside lanes, but chin down, flat back, and then he won! jack green won this race, and the time was his personal best time. chin down, flat back, can't lose! there is nothing evil or bad or even weak about writing yourself reminders on your body, like you

are a giant post-it that breathes. but doing it boldly and bravely and out in the open, and yeah, y'all can cheat using this too, i don't care, i need to remind myself, and then being rewarded for it because it worked! for those of us who have been writing stuff on our bodies for years to remind ourselves of these things, this is a heartwarming thing and it is the best new thing in the world today. that does it for us tonight. we'll see you again tomorrow night. now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." have a great night. tonight, everyone who follows american politics anywhere in the world is wondering, will mitt romney ever sing again? >> i've released all of my tax returns. and i think that's the right way to go and that's what i would tell governor romney to do. >> mitt, we need for you to release your income tax. >> he should release the tax returns tomorrow. it's crazy. >> if something's going to come out, get it out in a hurry. >> you know, i don't know how many years i'll release. >> he did five interviews with every outlet. >> i'll take a look at the -- what our documents are.

>> he didn't really address the questions about his tax returns. >> there's clearly a problem with the tax returns. >> mitt romney may be hiding something. >> he and the campaign are worried about something. >> what is this guy hiding? >> it makes it seem like there's something unseemly. >> this guy romney's on the ropes. >> romney's on the rope. >> and he ain't doing rope-a-do rope-a-dope. ♪ >> the battle over bain just won't go away. >> candidate obama is running at bain. candidate romney is running from bain. >> the rhetorical beating the obama campaign is going to continue on this issue. >> this is just not a good story line, not a good narrative for mitt romney. >> this increasingly negative tone of this campaign. >> i think it stinks to high heaven. >> romney calling for an apology from the obama campaign. >> we won't be apologizing. >> i think it stinks to high heaven. >> stop whining. >> he's afraid. >> they need to put their big girl and big boy pants on. >> if you don't run chris christie, romney will be the nominee and we'll lose.